Phylogeny of fossil and extant glypheid and litogastrid lobsters (Crustacea,Decapoda) as revealed by morphological characters |
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| Authors: | Sylvain Charbonnier Denis Audo Véronique Barriel Alessandro Garassino Günter Schweigert Martin Simpson |
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| Institution: | 1. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, Département Histoire de la Terre, UMR 7207 CR2P CNRS‐MNHN‐UPMC, Paris, France;2. Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, Sezione di Paleontologia degli Invertebrati, Milano, Italy;3. Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart, Germany;4. Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK |
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| Abstract: | A phylogenetic analysis of a total of 31 species: 27 fossil species from seven families (Glypheidae, Litogastridae, Mecochiridae, Pemphicidae, Erymidae, Clytiopsidae, Chimaerastacidae), and four extant species from three families (Glypheidae, Nephropidae, Stenopodidae) is proposed. Most of the genera considered are coded exclusively based upon their type species and, as much as possible, based upon the type specimens. The cladistic analysis demonstrates that the glypheidean lobsters (infraorder Glypheidea) form a monophyletic group including two superfamilies: Glypheoidea and Pemphicoidea new status. Glypheoidea includes three families: Glypheidae, Mecochiridae and Litogastridae. Litogastridae is the sister group of the clade Glypheidae + Mecochiridae. Pemphicoidea includes a single family: Pemphicidae. A new classification of Glypheidea is proposed and currently known genera are rearranged based upon the phylogenetic analysis. |
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